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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 03, 2013
Applicant:
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventors:
Horacio Andres Lagar Cavilla, East Toronto, CA;
Adin Matthew Scannell, Toronto, CA;
Timothy James Smith, W. Toronto, CA;
Peter Feiner, Toronto, CA;
Mushfiq Mahmood, Scarborough, CA;
David Richard Scannell, Toronto, CA;
Jing Chih Su, Toronto, CA;
Assignee:
Goolge Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 9/455 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0604 (2013.01); G06F 3/0662 (2013.01); G06F 3/0673 (2013.01); G06F 9/45533 (2013.01); G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45583 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for oversubscribing a host memory of a host running a virtual machine monitor (VMM), comprising, examining a virtual machine (VM) memory for a VM for metadata associated with the VM memory, the metadata maintained by a guest OS running on the VM, collecting the metadata for the VM memory, and managing the VM memory using the metadata for oversubscribing a host memory.